Hebrews 10:32-11:3 NIV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:32-39

A Call to His Readers So As To Ensure That They Will Not So Fail (Hebrews 10:32-39 ). He now reminds them of what they had suffered for Christ’s sake in the past, and the compassion that they had revealed for fellow-sufferers in those persecutions. Now they must not give up heart but must patiently endure as they did then, recognising that Christ is coming again and that in the meantime God’s righteous ones must live by faith. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:32-34

Hebrews 10:32-Nahum : . As in ch. 6 , the writer turns from solemn warning to encouragement, based on the past record of his readers. He reminds them of the valour they had shown in the days immediately succeeding their conversion ( Hebrews 10:32, “ after ye were enlightened” ). Like strong wrestlers they had stood up to persecution, content to be themselves the object of popular contempt and hatred, while they bravely assisted their fellow-sufferers ( Hebrews 10:33). They had relieved their... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 10:32

But call to remembrance the former days: But is not so much adversative as copulative, adding another direction for their persevering in Christianity, even the revolving in their minds, and bringing again to thought, what was past, carrying in it both the act and the end of it. It is a practical remembrance which bettereth them, while recollecting their own days, and the time that was past. In which, after ye were illuminated; in which they were convinced of the truth of the gospel, and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 10:32-39

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESHebrews 10:32. Illuminated.—Enlightened, by the preaching of the Christian truth. (Compare 2 Corinthians 4:6; 1 Peter 2:9.) At a later period the word φωτισθέντες became a synonym for “to baptise.”Hebrews 10:33. Gazing-stock.—Lit. “as one set on a theatrical stage.”Hebrews 10:34. In heaven.—An incorrect reading. R.V. has, “knowing that ye yourselves have a better possession and an abiding one.” Moulton thinks the translation should be, “perceiving that ye have your... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 10:26-39

Hebrews 10:26-39 Warning against Apostasy. I. Note briefly some misconceptions which prevent some readers of Scripture from receiving in a meek and docile spirit solemn admonitions of the Holy Ghost, such as the present. (1) There is an undue and one-sided haste to be happy and in the enjoyment of comfort. (2) There is a one-sided and unscriptural forgetfulness of the true position of the believer, as a man who is still on the road, in the battle; who has still the responsibility of trading... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 10:32

DISCOURSE: 2314THE BENEFIT OF PAST EXPERIENCEHebrews 10:32. Call to remembrance the former days.TO take a retrospect of our past lives, is the duty of every child of man. Without a frequent revision of the past, no man can repent, no man believe, no man be saved. We must be sensible of our guilt and helplessness, before we can ever come aright to Christ for mercy and grace; and such a consciousness of our need of him can proceed from nothing but self-knowledge, the fruit of much... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 10:1-39

Chapter 10For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very substance of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect ( Hebrews 10:1 ).Now notice the law was only a shadow of the good things to come. The value of the studying of Leviticus and the studying of the law, to the Christian, is that it foreshadows the work of Jesus Christ, the offering of Jesus Christ, and the high priestly nature of Jesus... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 10:1-39

Hebrews 10:1 . The law having a shadow of good things to come. St. Paul, ere his epistles were engrossed, weighed his words, adjusted his thoughts, collated them with the prophets, and knew the support he had from rabbinical theology. The law was a shadow indeed, but a very imperfect shadow of the Messiah, and the glory of his kingdom. Some call it a rough draught of better things. By the law we understand the whole of the ancient economy, which was a shadow of future realities; and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 10:32-34

Hebrews 10:32-34Ye endured a great fight of afflictionsThe believing Hebrews exhortedI.THE SUFFERINGS TO WHICH THE APOSTLE ADVERTS. “A great fight of afflictions.” The term affliction is usually employed by us to denote bodily indisposition; but it is evident that the reference here is to persecution. The words, “a great fight,” show that these Hebrews had a severe struggle to maintain; and it would be well for us to contrast the sufferings of the early Christians with what we have to endure.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 10:32

32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; Ver. 32. But call to remembrance ] q.d. You cannot utterly fall away, as those above mentioned; forasmuch as you have given good proof already of the reality of your graces. After ye were illuminated ] Till they had a sight of heaven they could not suffer; but no sooner out of the water of baptism, but they were presently in the fire of persecution. read more